…you can also see your friends graduate! Congrats out to the homey Lindsay Ross for graduating from Art Center Pasadena. His major, if you can’t tell, is transportation design, and last Friday I went out to the campus to check out his projects on display. I especially liked his BMW LMR (Le Mans Racer) concept, which was intended to be a fusion between F1 and the BMW M series.
While I’m not terribly familiar with Transportation design, the LMR concept he did was cool because it seemed realistic, rather than some comic book race car. Also, since he builds cars and races (real cars) in his free time, I think a lot of his motorsports background helps to give him a realistic, purpose driven approach to his work.
He also did a few other cars, including the Lotus project shown in the bottom right as well as another SUV concept. For some of these projects, I’d had seen them from time to time when he was building them (or in drawing phase), so to see it completed brings it full circle.
His Maserati project was stunning, which from my understanding mimics the fluidity of moving cloth, specifically in the way its displayed on marble statues.
I’d be trippin balls if I found myself following this on the 5 freeway. LOL.
The wheels were made from a 3D molding machine, which actually is able to form 3D objects in real time, layer by layer. I might be totally wrong, and I sure didn’t attend Art Center, so don’t quote me on it. Either way it’s cool and super concave!
Thanks to Amanda Lam for the pics / hosted by www.larrychendesign.com